Installing .sh files

J.Beall · 01-15-2009, 01:23 PM

Greetings All,

Having a problem installing a program called install_HE-Diabetes.sh. It's a sh script file but I'm unable to run the program. I'm using unbuntu 8.10
. I did install it on my old Fedora 6 OS, but I upgraded to ver. 9, then It crashed. So I'm using unbuntu til I can get another copy . Well I must have forgot the correct way to do this so I'm tossing it to this group.

Many thanks for all of the replies I receive on this topic.

John

repo · 01-15-2009, 01:35 PM

you should give the error messages.

However, try:
chmod +x install_HE-Diabetes.sh
./install_HE-Diabetes.sh

Count Zero · 01-15-2009, 01:38 PM

Check if the script is executable, using ls -l (you'll see the long format of ls, including permissions, which should state that you have x - meaning execute - permission)

If it is not executable, make it so using chmod +x FILENAME.

After that, just run the script using ./FILENAME

If you have any problems after that, you need to post the output if people are going to be able to help you.

/CZ

colucix · 01-15-2009, 02:33 PM

Most likely it is a shell archive containing a certain amount of encoded binary data. I've seen some of these installers to launch an install wizard, often based on java. If this is the case, there is a chance it looks for a Java Virtual Machine that is not available on your system.

If the problem is actually running the shell script, either add permission for execution - as alreay suggested - or launch it as

Code:

/bin/sh install_HE-Diabetes.sh

and copy/paste the error message (if any) embedding it in code tags.